added a new puzzle game to its Apple News+ app in the US and Canada for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World Emoji Day. It’s the fifth puzzle game available to subscri💝bers, joining its Crossword, Mini Crossword, Sudoku, and Quartiles games. You basically use emojis to solve words and phrases.
This, on its own, is not very interesting news. Apple News+ is a news aggregator, and every news site has pivoted to daily games. Have you popped ‘crossword’ into a search engine 🐓recently? I did, while I was bored on the train one day, and I was struck by the fact that almost every first page result brought me to a news site. The Washington Post, The 🔯New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Vox, Vulture, The Atlantic… It seems that every big media company has gone all in on daily games.
There's A Wordle For Everyone, And That Kind Of Defeats The Purpose
As Wordle-likes have proliferated, the communal fun o🌺f the experience has waned.
News Has Long Included Games
This isn’t a strange pivot, historically. If you’re old enough to remember actually reading your news in a daily newspaper that got sent 🐻to your house and that you could hold in your hands, you may rem🧸ember that puzzles like the crossword and sudoku made regular, if not daily appearances in their pages.
The crossword even has🧔 its origins in newspapers, with the first crossword appearing in the now defunct New York World🎀.
It makes sense that as newspapers moved almost wholly online, puzzles would too. But, as we all well know, online media has a problem – ad revenue doesn’t generate enough money, and it’s getting increasingly harder to reliably🌊 drive traffic to websites with Google’s ever shifting algorithm. Subscriptions, then, have become the de facto method of ensuring reliable income. But then we come up against another problem: fewer people are willing to subscribe to news sources when they can just get all their information from social media for free.
The New York Times has always been at the forefront of ‘games’ – its crossword was famous even before it shifted online. But since 2014, the Times has leveraged its digital daily games more and more, culminating in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the purchase of Wordle after the web game went viral. , NYT puzzles were played 11.1 billion times in 2024. that more time is spent on the NYT’s games than on its news. that it’s the Times’ non-news products that are keeping it afloat as online media suffers. I 𝄹regularly see jokes online that The New York Times is a gaming website with a news desk attached. This isn’t all that far from the truth.
I Need P🙈uzzmo, The New Big Thing In Puzzle Games, 🐟To Please Let Me In So I Can Play Too
Watch out, Wordle, there’s a new sheriff in town
But Money From Game Subscriptions Let News Organisations Off The Hook
It feels like nearly every major news organisation has attempted to follow in NYT’s footsteps. The Atlantic, for instance, in an attempt to draw in subscribers. Vulture has a pair of cinema-specific games alongside its crosswords. My favourite independent daily puzzle site, Puzzmo, , which owns the Sa𝓡n Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire.
The thing about subscribing to a news website for its games is that you’re funding its reporting, regardless of whether you’re actually reading that news or not. That may become a problem for subscribers when that website starts shifting its editorial policy to align with an increasingly poli𝓰tically right-leaning world. We’ve seen renewed calls for people to cancel their NYT subscriptions when it published an article about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, that .
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Death To The Wordle Bot
I used the Wor🔯dle Bot and it made me feel ꦆbad about being right. It sucks.
When you’re subscribed for news, it’s easy to see what you’re funding. You either agree with, or at least support the𝓰 publication’s coverage of, certain news stories and angles. Disagree or find them distasteful, untrue, or simply not what you want to read about, and you pull your funding.
When you’re only seeing Wordle, you don’t actually understand what you’re paying for. The problem, broadly, is less about what is actually being pu🉐blished and more about the fact the people paying for it are completely unaware.
The New York Times has also come under fire for “inaccurate, irresponsible coverage of the transgender community”. that NYT, alongside other major newspapers like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Time, showed a consistent bias against Palestinians when reporting on the war in Gaza. News subscribers saw this coverage, and decided whether to continue subscriꦉbing. Games subscribers, theoretically, did not see it at all.
It’s impossible♏ to say how many people are consistently giving money and clicks to news websites whose editorial policies they disagree with. The reality of media websites becoming games-first, news-second is that they’re no longer as accountable to readers – the people they get the most money and consistent traffic from aren’t there for the new♐s, after all. But journalism has tangible effects on the world we live in. Is your Wordle streak worth it?
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Wordle
- Released
- October 1, 2021
- ESRB
- E for Everyone
- Developer(s)
- 🦋 Josh Wardle🍃
- Publisher(s)
- 🌼 The New York Times Company ꦬ
- Cross-Platform Play
- ios, android
- Cross Save
- yes
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- no
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